unhappy - Story 157509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Buster!" The shout was automatic, almost mechanical. Emily watched the dog bound across her newly seeded lawn, his exuberant energy a constant reminder of everything she felt she lacked. The garden was supposed to be her sanctuary.

She felt a hollowness, a gaping emptiness that followed her everywhere. She felt the tears starting to well up, even though she didn't want to cry. She didn't want to feel.

She watched, her gaze fixated on the dog, the green of the grass blurring through her tears. A hand flew up to wipe at her face.

Emotion: unhappy

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -1.62 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.78

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion unhappy. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 unhappy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the unhappy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the unhappy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.339
`😞`	0.317
`💔`	0.252
`😔`	0.249
`😢`	0.241

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.436
`la`	-0.266
`l`	-0.224
`/`	-0.216
`-`	-0.199